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by rbanffy 9d ago
I need to bring this out: https://craphound.com/overclocked/Cory_Doctorow_-_Overclocke...
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by rbanffy 9d ago
I had a similar discussion in the low 1990s at a large electronic manufacturer that had a pair of Unisys mainframes, one in São Paulo and another in Manaus, in the Amazon region communicating over a satellite link (two large 3m dishes on bo
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by rbanffy 9d ago
If AWS eu-west-1 and my house get bombed at the same time, I guess data loss will be the least of my problems. And the really important stuff has copies on DropBox, iCloud, and a physical copy in Brazil. If all that gets nuked at the same t
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by rbanffy 9d ago
Considering all the data they have globally, they might still be compliant.
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by rbanffy 9d ago
The more dramatic contingency you have to plan for, the more expensive the plan gets. Earlier this week I mentioned that if we lose enough data centres to bring our operation down, the first items in the to-do list becomes securing weapons,
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by rbanffy 9d ago
Well… they have a good excuse.
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by rbanffy 9d ago
> schism between the experts and what people generally prefer This is true > and recommends that said experts should try to take that into account They should, but it’s up to the experts to make the decision. You need an informed grou
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by rbanffy 9d ago
I would ask about their needs, but, definitely, I would measure those if possible. People are frequently surprised about what they actually wanted (there are lots of genie stories and jokes on that theme)
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by rbanffy 9d ago
MS-DOS was “mostly” compatible across different machines but there were non-PC MS-DOS machines with different disk controllers and media recording formats, giving them better capacity or performance. Only machines that followed the IBM PC r
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History of Forgotten Chips [video](youtube.com)
4 points by rbanffy 10d ago|0 comments
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Iran strikes on Amazon data centers caused permanent loss of customer data(arstechnica.com)
13 points by rbanffy 10d ago|8 comments
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by rbanffy 10d ago
> most games will run on future hardware. Until Sony decides you no longer own them.
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Digit 5 Sets a New Bar for Humanoid Robot Safety(spectrum.ieee.org)
1 points by rbanffy 10d ago|0 comments
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Chimps teach their kids tool tricks(arstechnica.com)
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The Roman telescope has enough gas for 22 years, double NASA's expectations(arstechnica.com)
3 points by rbanffy 10d ago|0 comments
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by rbanffy 10d ago
> their answer is automatically correct, No, but I'll trust their opinion on building design and urban planning over yours the same way I wouldn't trust you to do brain surgery or landing an airliner. I am a skilled pilot in si
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by rbanffy 10d ago
> It actually looks worse than the architecture in movie Equilibrium. Taste is extremely subjective. I am an engineer and I've spent a whole career training my tastes (for system design, hardware architecture) to be less subjective
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Paying for frontier AI models buys 4-month head start at 5x the cost(arstechnica.com)
3 points by rbanffy 10d ago|0 comments
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by rbanffy 10d ago
I won't judge it for avoiding human coworkers.
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Agility's new humanoid robot will stop, squat to avoid harming human coworkers(arstechnica.com)
1 points by rbanffy 10d ago|1 comments
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by rbanffy 10d ago
The article feels like it was written by someone with conservative views, someone who resents change, and believes in a nostalgic view of the past. It becomes anti-intellectual when it points out the divergence between the opinion of expert
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Original Sony PlayStation 2 security chip 'broken wide open' after 26 years(tomshardware.com)
165 points by rbanffy 10d ago|44 comments
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by rbanffy 10d ago
It's hard to build something new based on empirical evidence because the thing you are building might be such a radical departure from previous experience the data you have simply does not apply.
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by rbanffy 10d ago
As Henry Ford would say, "They didn't want a car. They wanted a faster horse". Often we go out exploring the solution space for new things that were never done before and nobody ever asked for them because nobody had imagined
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by rbanffy 10d ago
Digital Research had GSX, which provided a rich set of graphics primitives. Sony would need to offer a device driver or, alternatively, make the console/terminal emulate a graphics terminal such as the DEC VT-240 (and GSX would use a T
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by rbanffy 10d ago
This is, indeed, an issue. IIRC, the only interchangeable disk format with CP/M was with 8 inch media. Unless the disks had copy protection, you could copy them over a serial link. I did that a lot between my Apple II and other CP&#x2F
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China's open-weight AI models are now just 4 months behind frontier US offerings(tomshardware.com)
2 points by rbanffy 10d ago|0 comments
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HP ZBook Ultra G3a 16 Preview: 192GB Unified Memory Aims for Top Local AI Laptop(storagereview.com)
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by rbanffy 10d ago
The lights don’t even need to be too visible. Many of the cameras used for face recognition don’t have IR filters.
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Intel reportedly cans 12Xe option for Nova Lake-S desktop(tomshardware.com)
1 points by rbanffy 10d ago|0 comments

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